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Vol. 77 No. 19 May 18, 1977
Let them eat pie
Kids at Riverview lined up for a pie-eating contest. It
was pretty messy. More on page 9.
Hobbies& Crafts
coming soon to Mount Joy
Next Saturday and Sun-
day, May 21 and 22 are the
dates for the Mount Joy
Hobby and Craft Show.
More than SO craftsmen
and hobbiests will be
displaying and demonstrat-
ing their wares. Some of
the displays and demon-
strations will include chair
caning, quilling, modern
ammunition reloading, Ei-
senhower items, quilts,
candle making, homemade
jewelry, plastic art, covered
bridges, reverse painting,
rug hooking, weaving,
macrame, string art, crewel
work, needlepoint, coins,
and Mount Joy items.
The affair will be held in
the W.I. Beahm Junior
High School and is being
sponsored by the Mount
Joy Historical Society.
Times for the show Satur-
day will be from 1 to 8
P.M. and on Sunday, times
will be 1 to 6 P.M. Tickets
may be purchased at the
door or from members of
the society.
Proceeds from the affair
will be used in the estab-
lishment of the Mount Joy
Historical Center. W. Ber-
nell Heisey is president of
the local organization.
Forty-year-old films of
Mount Joy will be shown
every 90 minutes. These
films were taken by Joseph
Sheaffer and were original-
ly shown at a special
program entitled ‘‘Home-
town Movies."
William Barto and Ralph
Berrier are co-chairmen of
the: display area; Eugene
Bender, tickets; Mrs. Mar-
ian Brubaker, refresh-
ments; Mrs. Warren Hei-
sey and Mrs. William Bar-
to, display tables.
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(mock) wreydasier:.
—imaginary airplane strews
“bodies,”’ flaming wreckage
over landscape
It sounded like the
worst aviation disaster in
Lancaster County history.
Ambulance, fire and rescue
companies raced to the
abondoned quarry near
Bainbridge, where a spot-
ter plane had located the
flaming wreckage.
Our reporter found one
rescue team trying to get
an injured man out of a
tree. After setting up a
ladder, they carried him
down and put him on a
stretcher. An ‘‘official ob-
server’’ walked up to the
crew chief, who was trying
to decide what to do next.
“Forget it. He'll be dead
in a few hours,”” said the
observer.
“Dead? His tag says
he’s just unconcious!’’ said
the chief. Strangely
enough, the victim had a
tag on his leg, stating his
condition.
““Terminal radiation
burns. It says so right here
on the sheet.”
“Well, we can forget
about this one,’ said
another crewman, and
turned the litter over,
dumping his victim on the
ground.
The dying man laughed
and climbed back on the
litter.
Leaving to look for more
gory photos, our reporter
ran into a man carrying a
large box of medical sup-
plies. ‘‘He just died,” said
the reporter.
The crewman turned
around saying, ‘‘Then I can
take this stuff back.”
“But they don’t know it
yet,” said the reporter.
The man cursed, turned
again, and went back up
the hill with his burden.
The explanation for the
rescue workers’ strange
behavior is simple; this was
not a real accident. It was a
practice drill. Firemen ar-
riving at the scene had not
been warned that the drill
was scheduled. They had to
figure it out for them-
selves.
Civil Air Patrol mem-
bers, who sponsored and
planned the ‘‘crash’ did
their best to make the drill
realistic. Susquehanna
Times reporter Nick
Bromer filed this report
from the scene:
At 10:22 last Saturday
flight Crunch 01 advised
Harrisburg Airport control
that they were having
trouble with #2 engine. Six
minutes later they radioed
again: two crewman had
bailed out, #2 engine was
on fire, and they were
losing altitude rapidly. Two
minutes after that Harris-
burg heard the plane's
“ELT” signal indicating a
crash (the Electronic Locat-
ing Transmitter’’ turns it-
self on on impact). Crunch
01 did not answer on fre-
quency 118.8.
Fifteen minutes later a
search plane came zooming
in at tree-top level over a
small clearning near Bain-
bridge. One glance told the
pilot what had happened.
He radioed the position in.
The arriving “ambulance
was confronted with a
strange and terrible scene.
Fires were burning all
around the area, bodies
were strewn across the
landscape in contorted pos-
tures, a girl was running in
circles, screaming hysteri-
cally. One man was dang-
ling from a tree: he had
parachuted from the plane
moments before it crashed
but too late. He was
seriously injured.
There was a lot of work
to do, but the ambulance
crew decided to first calm
the hysterical girl, later
identified as Bonnie Drace
of Maytown. They wrestled
her screaming to the
ground and tried to calm
her, to obtain information.
Unfortunately, she only
screamed some more, SO
they found a bystander to
watch her and moved on to
the injured passengers,
some of whom were trap-
ped in wreckage.
Rescue workers lower a ‘casualty’ from a cliff following
the the crash of flight Crunch 01 near Bainbridge.
Drace, a Civil Air Patrol
member, had not been on
the plane when it crashed.
She just happened to be
there, along with about 40
other Air Patrolmen, five
reporters, 7 SERCOM
communications personnel,
and several observers.
Most of these people
shamelessly rubbernecked
and refused to help. In-
stead, they chatted and
joked at the carnage.
Soon other ambulances
and fire crew arrived.
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MOUNT JOY
MEMORIAL DAY
The Mount Joy Memor-
ial Day Community Fund
is seeking the support of
every person, business,
industry, or organization
for money contributions to
pay for the Memorial Day
parade, fireworks, and
community activities.
Contributions can be
mailed to Mount Joy
Memorial Day Community
Fund, Mount Joy, PA
417552.